Ivor Fredric CHALMERS

Service Number:	414465
Enlisted:	11 October 1941
Last Rank:	Flight Sergeant
Last Unit:	No. 207 Squadron (RAF)
Born:	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 19 October 1911
Home Town:	North Tamborine, Scenic Rim, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Timber worker
Died:	Flying Battle, Berlin, Germany, North West Europe, 29 January 1944, aged 32 years
Cemetery:	Berlin 1939-45 War Cemetery 5 D 10
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Canungra War Memorial, Gympie WW2, Imbil War Memorial, International Bomber Command Centre Memorial, Kandanga Cemetery Memorial, Maryborough No. 3 Wireless Air Gunners' School Memorial Wall

World War 2 Service

11 Oct 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Aircraftman 2 (WW2), 414465, Brisbane, Queensland
11 Oct 1941:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 414465
29 Jan 1944:	Involvement Royal Australian Air Force, Flight Sergeant, 414465, No. 207 Squadron (RAF), Air War NW Europe 1939-45
6 Nov 2019:	Involvement Bomber Command Clasp awarded

Ivor Chalmers by SQNLDR Bruce Chalmers

Ivor Fredric Chalmers enlisted at Traveston, near Gympie, Queensland. His family consisted of Ivor, Don (Army), Roy (RAAF), John (Army - a Desert Rat at Tobruk), Ben (RAAF), Thomas (RAAF) and Joyce.

He was the son of Alexander and Emily Chalmers of Samford QLD and the eldest of the children in the family.

Prior to enlistment he was a timber worker and was serving as rear-gunner with the RAF on Lancaster LM366 EM-H when it was brought down in Germany.

Initially interred at Buck, he is now buried in the World War Two War Graves Commission cemetery in Berlin.

Enlisted Travetson QLD

Ivor Chalmers was the eldest son of Alexander and Emily Chalmers of Samford.

Submitted 4 October 2016 by Bruce Chalmers

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